Chthonic /

Chthonic /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	James, John (Poet), author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Imprint:	Missoula, MT : CutBank Books, [2014] ©2014
Description:	53 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	CutBank chapbooks CutBank chapbooks.
Subject:	American poetry -- 21st century. Poetry -- 21st century. Poetry. American poetry. Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11924760

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ISBN:	9781939717108 1939717108
Notes:	"Winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Prize"--Cover. Published by CutBank Books, Creative Writing Program, English Department, University of Montana, Missoula.
Summary:	"A brilliant offering full of loss and intimacies, Chthonic is a chapbook that begs a closer look into the strange darkness of ourselves. Stark landscapes, a piercing exactitude, and a merciful wisdom fill this book that walks 'a thin wire of grief.' An unflinching observer, John James writes with a patient honesty and a lyric beauty that will leave you ringing."--Ada Limón.

Table of Contents:

Chthonic
Schadenfreude (Your mouth burning too)
Languor and languish
Clock elegy
Schadenfreude (Rest)
Famous tombs
His angels especially amaze the birds
Schadenfreude (False memory)
Sonata
Story with a shriveled nipple
Driving Arizona
Scarecrow
The healers
1956
Beneath the trees at Ellingsworth
Other Adam
Animals of the field attend his dreams
Heirloom (Wreck)
After Guatemala
Years I've slept right through.